About this Item: Denise Harvey (Publisher), 2015. Soft cover. Condition: As New. 3rd Edition. FRONT CORNERS SLIGHTLY BUMPED, OTHERWISE BRAND NEW. The growing threat of ecological disaster weighs heavily on people’s minds. In this book, first published nearly thirty years ago but still acutely relevant, Philip Sherrard traces the crisis back to what he believes is its true origin: the incremental replacement of a participatory and sacramental understanding of creation with the more detached scientific mentality that predominates today. Sherrard believes that by accepting this materialistic, mechanistic worldview we are contributing to our own dehumanization — with drastic consequences for the natural world. Most people take for granted the assertion that modern science rests on pure, objective fact. For Sherrard such an assertion is, instead, a provocation. Modern science, he argues, emerged from developments in medieval Scholastic thought and is founded on a host of unquestioned philosophical and metaphysical assumptions. Only once we have understood more fully these assumptions and subjected them to close scrutiny may we begin to recover and reinvigorate the fuller vision of human life and the cosmos that the modern scientific perspective has replaced. In bold, meticulous prose Sherrard makes his diagnosis of humanity’s present course in uncompromising terms. Yet he does not despair of a solution. There is nothing inevitable, he believes, in the unfolding tragedies of environmental despoliation, unbridled commodification and dehumanization, and cultural decay. Instead, Sherrard calls for a restoration of a sacred cosmology in which the spiritual regeneration of humanity and the ecological regeneration of the earth are seen as deeply enmeshed, in fact, as one and the same. ‘Through his sense of the sacred, through his emphasis upon the visionary intellect, and through his acute perception of the ecological crisis, Philip Sherrard is truly a prophet for our present age, a messenger whose winged words are addressed not so much to the twentieth century in which he lived as to the twenty-first century that is now unfolding.’ METROPOLITAN KALLISTOS of DIOKLEIA. This new edition has been re-typeset and amended; 132 pages. Seller Inventory # ABE-1486542611442

About this Item: Denise Harvey (Publisher), 2015. Soft cover. Condition: As New. 3rd Edition. TOP RIGHT HAND CORNER SLIGHTLY BUMPED, OTHERWISE BRAND NEW.The growing threat of ecological disaster weighs heavily on people’s minds. In this book, first published nearly thirty years ago but still acutely relevant, Philip Sherrard traces the crisis back to what he believes is its true origin: the incremental replacement of a participatory and sacramental understanding of creation with the more detached scientific mentality that predominates today. Sherrard believes that by accepting this materialistic, mechanistic worldview we are contributing to our own dehumanization — with drastic consequences for the natural world. Most people take for granted the assertion that modern science rests on pure, objective fact. For Sherrard such an assertion is, instead, a provocation. Modern science, he argues, emerged from developments in medieval Scholastic thought and is founded on a host of unquestioned philosophical and metaphysical assumptions. Only once we have understood more fully these assumptions and subjected them to close scrutiny may we begin to recover and reinvigorate the fuller vision of human life and the cosmos that the modern scientific perspective has replaced. In bold, meticulous prose Sherrard makes his diagnosis of humanity’s present course in uncompromising terms. Yet he does not despair of a solution. There is nothing inevitable, he believes, in the unfolding tragedies of environmental despoliation, unbridled commodification and dehumanization, and cultural decay. Instead, Sherrard calls for a restoration of a sacred cosmology in which the spiritual regeneration of humanity and the ecological regeneration of the earth are seen as deeply enmeshed, in fact, as one and the same. ‘Through his sense of the sacred, through his emphasis upon the visionary intellect, and through his acute perception of the ecological crisis, Philip Sherrard is truly a prophet for our present age, a messenger whose winged words are addressed not so much to the twentieth century in which he lived as to the twenty-first century that is now unfolding.’ METROPOLITAN KALLISTOS of DIOKLEIA. This new edition has been re-typeset and amended; 132 pages. Seller Inventory # ABE-1486542759008

About this Item: Denise Harvey (Publisher) 2015-05-30, 2015. Condition: New. Brand new book, sourced directly from publisher. Dispatch time is 24-48 hours from our warehouse. Book will be sent in robust, secure packaging to ensure it reaches you securely. Seller Inventory # NU-MAR-00061413

About this Item: Denise Harvey (Publisher), 2015. Soft cover. Condition: New. 3rd Edition. The growing threat of ecological disaster weighs heavily on people’s minds. In this book, first published nearly thirty years ago but still acutely relevant, Philip Sherrard traces the crisis back to what he believes is its true origin: the incremental replacement of a participatory and sacramental understanding of creation with the more detached scientific mentality that predominates today. Sherrard believes that by accepting this materialistic, mechanistic worldview we are contributing to our own dehumanization — with drastic consequences for the natural world. Most people take for granted the assertion that modern science rests on pure, objective fact. For Sherrard such an assertion is, instead, a provocation. Modern science, he argues, emerged from developments in medieval Scholastic thought and is founded on a host of unquestioned philosophical and metaphysical assumptions. Only once we have understood more fully these assumptions and subjected them to close scrutiny may we begin to recover and reinvigorate the fuller vision of human life and the cosmos that the modern scientific perspective has replaced. In bold, meticulous prose Sherrard makes his diagnosis of humanity’s present course in uncompromising terms. Yet he does not despair of a solution. There is nothing inevitable, he believes, in the unfolding tragedies of environmental despoliation, unbridled commodification and dehumanization, and cultural decay. Instead, Sherrard calls for a restoration of a sacred cosmology in which the spiritual regeneration of humanity and the ecological regeneration of the earth are seen as deeply enmeshed, in fact, as one and the same. ‘Through his sense of the sacred, through his emphasis upon the visionary intellect, and through his acute perception of the ecological crisis, Philip Sherrard is truly a prophet for our present age, a messenger whose winged words are addressed not so much to the twentieth century in which he lived as to the twenty-first century that is now unfolding.’ METROPOLITAN KALLISTOS of DIOKLEIA. This new edition has been re-typeset and amended; 132 pages. Seller Inventory # ABE-16085409729

About this Item: Golgonooza Press, 1988. Condition: Good. New edition. Ships from the UK. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Seller Inventory # GRP58664467

About this Item: Golgonooza Press. Hardcover. Condition: New. UNUSED, VERY GOOD, NOT EX-LIBRARY, shows signs of shelfwear, scuffed jacket, cover is different to the one on Amazon, tanned edges, 128 pages. This has been reset and amended by the publisher in June 2015. It is available directly from the publisher for ten euro plus shipping. Perhaps soon others will carry this edition, but don't pay these ridiculous out-of-print prices. I wonder how much this book may have influenced Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew as the "Green Patriarch.". Seller Inventory # 17115